{"id":29296,"date":"2016-08-23T23:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T06:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/china-unveils-2020-mars-rover-concept-report"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:21:24","slug":"china-unveils-2020-mars-rover-concept-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/china-unveils-2020-mars-rover-concept-report","title":{"rendered":"China unveils 2020 Mars rover concept: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-unveils-2020-mars-rover-concept-report.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has unveiled illustrations of a Mars probe and rover it aims to send to the Red Planet at the end of the decade in a mission that faces \u201cunprecedented\u201d challenges, state media said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>China, which is pouring billions into its space programme and working to catch up with the US and Europe, announced in April it aims to send a spacecraft \u201caround 2020\u201d to orbit Mars, land and deploy the rover.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Rongqiao, chief architect of the project, said Tuesday they were targeting July or August of that year for the launch, the Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-08-china-unveils-mars-rover-concept.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;08-china-unveils-mars-rover-concept.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has unveiled illustrations of a Mars probe and rover it aims to send to the Red Planet at the end of the decade in a mission that faces \u201cunprecedented\u201d challenges, state media said on Wednesday. China, which is pouring billions into its space programme and working to catch up with the US and Europe, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66457,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29296\/revisions\/66457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}